It's like a Surface Pro 3 but cheaper and the price includes a keyboard / mouse / port replicator / speaker / stand to sit the tablet in. I find it very useful for holidays / travel etc. because it's a PC when I want it to be and a tablet when I need something simpler.

I preordered a OnePlus during the 1-hour, no 2-hour, no 8-hour sale where their systems collapsed under the load. I wasn't even sure if my preorder had been successful or not because I didn't get an acknowledgement until the day after. The whole thing was a clusterfuck of epic proportions. I was also told ETA 6 weeks but this dropped to 2 and suddenly the package was with me with no dispatch notification. So their IT and general customer interaction are seriously bad.

But the phone itself is excellent. It's easily comparable to a Galaxy Note and I have to remind myself it only cost half the price. I got a 64GB phone for £279. Build quality is excellent, the screen is bright and high DPI, the battery life is very good and it has a very good software experience thanks to Cyanogenmod. My biggest gripe is the charging cable (which looks very spiffy) is too short and the connector is upside down compared to other phones. Firefox also doesn't appear to be able to play hardware accelerated h264 properly for some reason which I assume is a fault in the software since no other app has the problem. Otherwise it's a great device.

That's marvellous if you are along the corridor of chargers. Not so marvellous for the vast number of people who aren't. Or who can't afford a Tesla.

It's not hard to envisage every gas station having chargers some day (or diners / supermarkets / convenience stores who want to attract business while vehicles charge). That day is still some way off.

Just google for "free antivirus and sexy girl screensaver APK". Lots of Chinese warez sites have it. The app asks for a lot of permissions but only to see if there are viruses hiding in your text messages or contacts.

It's one thing to not default search to Google, but it would be another entirely to remove it from the list. As I don't run Mint, I'm assuming you mean the latter by "actively prevent". Even Mint can't use the standard Firefox branding or search plugin (perhaps it has an affiliate id in out), there are other ones which would work.

Maybe Foxconn had some spare iPad mini cases left over

Let sites create their own keys and sign them (or not) by anyone they feel like. This could include CAs but equally it could include other sites they do business with to build a web of trust. And the browser should use SSL observatory to compare and cache these keys and present a simple checklist of what protection the site has against attack, its level of trust etc.

The existing model is broken by the fact that CAs are not always trustworthy, the certs they issue to most sites are worthless as tokens of trust and the whole mechanism is a tax on security. It needs all browser makers to knock heads and make CAs for security an optional thing. Yes some sites like banks or whatever might want to pay some CA to audit their security procedures for storing a cert. For most sites it's complete overkill.

A fool and their money are soon parted. I've yet to see a single kickstarter that would justify me giving a single penny to it. Most of them are glorified preorders - "give us money now and in a year or two we might deliver a product you can have for a small discount off its eventual retail price". No thanks.

Typescript is similar to Actionscript and compiles down to Javascript. You can do stuff like interfaces, classes, inheritance, compile time typechecking etc. My experience of Typescript is the language is okay but developing it is painful because the tools are awful, particularly for someone coming from a place like Java where IDEs will give instant feedback on errors, code completion, formatting etc. Even stuff like ordering of classes can break the JS even when the TS compiles perfectly.

I would agree with the sentiment that people who think JS (or HTML5) is some panacea for Flash are idiots. Flash was hated primarily because it was TOO popular - sites abused the fuck out of it and multi tabbed browsers sagged under the weight of so many running instances. If JS is abused the same way the performance would be just as bad.

JS is often considered the problem, not the solution to web development. This is why coffeescript, typescript et al exit. Plus a raft of JS libraries like jquery, backbone, underscore, phantom, handlebars etc. to hide the differences or provide basic niceties that JS lacks. Plus the likes of dart, emscripten, GWT and so on which bury JS completely and spit out compiled JS. Plus the recognition from browsers that JS performance sucks and the optimization paths they've implemented (e.g. asm.js). That said, we're almost in a place where 95% of the use cases for Flash are probably achievable in JS. Personally I wish browsers would adopt PNaCl or something similar so code can be compiled and run at near native speeds - skip JS as an intermediate format when it doesn't make sense and just let sites ship bitcode.

That left / right split swipe in Android 4 felt wrong and looked pretty stupid especially for someone familiar with the behaviour on a smaller device.

A lot of money is riding on a game release. They cost millions to produce and market and delaying could cost millions more. A game would have to be seriously broken to be delayed.

So it's unsurprising that Ubisoft pushed it out the way it was. If they announced a delay, they'd lose out on seasonal sales, their preorders would be decimated and it would affect their quarterly figures. So they pushed out something with some serious bugs and performance issues and used an embargo to prevent bad press until after all those preorders were fulfilled. I'm sure they'll get around to fixing the worst of the bugs, but people have been sold a lemon.

As consumers, there is a clear lesson to be learned here - do not preorder. Do not reward companies who use hype and lies to promote a game that may not live up to expectations. If a game is THAT AMAZING, then it'll still be so in a week or two after release when consensus is formed. And if it isn't... well that's €60+ you've saved for a better game.

I don't believe that to be true beyond what you might get from shifting from one food source to another - some temporary effects to your gut. And besides if she affected her health by not eating then it is in her interest to start again even if that means gradual reintroduction and abstinence again when circumstances allowed for it.

So the meat was cooked and consumed anyway? What's the point of that if she ends up affecting her own health?

And it would be pretty trivial for the credit card company and police to notice thefts all occurring from this one shop and rain fire down on their asses.

Gah second para was supposed to say - if 'a' is_less_than c AND c is_less_than 'z' then ischar = 1' as an example of where EBCDIC would break horribly and it only gets worse with stuff like rot13, crypto etc.. Slashdot gobbled up the less thans and truncated that sentence.